JIUZHAIGOU NATURE RESERVE, SICHUAN, CHINA march 2017     I T I N E R A R Y DAY 1: Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve DAY 2: Surrounding Tibetan Monastery      

I have taken a little break from this space in order properly plan for 2018. But I am back with a gorgeous little gem of a recipe just in time for Valentine’s Day. With citrus season still in full swing, I wanted to photograph a recipe with one of my absolute favorites, the blood orange. Among mother nature’s many beauties,… Read More

 UMBRIA, ITALY august 2017   Plains of Castelluccio di Norcia    The deep greens of the Umbrian countryside   This photo, one of my favorites of the trip, was taken in the Cathedral of a town called Todi that we briefly stopped in. I’m so glad I turned around away from the interior of the church to see the sunlight… Read More

Summer and this year has passed so quickly and somehow we are suddenly already in the first days of November. I have been woefully neglecting this space for the past two months. Do you ever have so much in your mind, so much to do, that you just end up not accomplishing anything? That is how I have been over… Read More

If you have been following this space for a while now, you may know that I am an avid jammer. For years now I spend my Summer and Fall building up a year’s worth of various jams with whatever fruits that strike my fancy. I do not follow recipes and instead use a very simple formula that you can find… Read More

Even though I was raised on Sichuan food and crave it much like others crave chocolate, for the longest time I was under the impression that I hated spicy cocktails. But a string of really tasty cocktails at bars recently I have come to realize that it isn’t the heat that I don’t like, it is more the inability of… Read More